Doctors Told This Mom That Her Baby Was Fine, But She Knew Something Was Wrong

Having a dangerously sick child is stressful and scary enough, but could you imagine being told by doctors that nothing was going on?

One Australian mom grew more and more worried when despite her daughter’s continuously worsening symptoms, she kept getting sent home from the hospital. Erin Miller from Goulburn, New South Wales, took her three-year-old daughter, Harper, to a doctor after she started noticing blisters forming on the little girl’s abdomen. Being a nurse, she assumed it was the chicken pox virus. But when the blisters began joining together to form a rash, she suspected her daughter might have a secondary bacterial infection.

The doctor prescribed antibiotics for the infection and sent them home, but they did nothing to improve Harper’s condition. Miller took her daughter to the Goulburn Base Hospital, but medical staff only bandaged the areas and sent them home again without confirming her diagnosis.

“I’m a nurse myself so I don’t like to complain because I know what it’s like but in this situation. I don’t think it was satisfactory; it was quite clear that she had an infection and they didn’t do anything,” Miller told Kidspot.